 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1833 - 812 pages
...How. 213, an action of libel, in which exemplary damages were given, Mr. Justice Campbell said : " Whenever the injury complained of has been inflicted...limited to the ascertainment of a simple compensation." But as nothing of this kind, under the evidence, could be imputed to the defendant, the judgment was... | |
 | Law - 1886 - 548 pages
...oppressive. In Philadelphia, W. & BR Co. v. Quigley, 21 How. 202, 214, Mr. Justice Campbell said : " Whenever the injury .complained of has been inflicted...this rule is not merely the doing of an unlawful or injurious act. The word Implies that the act complained of was conceived iu the spirit of mischief... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 848 pages
...certain actions of tort to assess [ * 214 ] * against the tort feaser punitive or exemplary damages. Whenever the injury complained of has been inflicted...malice spoken of in this rule is not merely the doing Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Co. v. Quigley. of an unlawful or injurious act. The... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 802 pages
...the jury in certain actions of tort to assess against the tort-feasor punitive or exemplary damages. Whenever the injury complained of has been inflicted...this rule is not merely the doing of an unlawful or injurious act : the word implies that the wrong complained of was conceived in the spirit of mischief,... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Torts - 1876 - 996 pages
...call for such damages, vindictive damages may l>e given. The general rule is that, when the injury has been inflicted maliciously or wantonly, and with...circumstances of contumely or indignity, the jury are not restricted to actual damages, but may give such damages in addition thereto ai the circumstances of... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 912 pages
...Quigley's case, 21 How. Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore RR Co. v. Larkin. 214, where it is said " whenever the injury complained of has been inflicted...the wrong committed against the aggrieved person." This doctrine has also very recently been approved by the Supreme Court in a collision case. Milwaukee... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey, John Henry Truman - Joinder of parties - 1879 - 586 pages
...a jury in certain actions of tort to assess against 'he tort-feasor punitive or exemplary damages. Whenever the injury complained of has been inflicted...and with circumstances of contumely or indignity, 'he jury are not limited to the ascertainment of a simple compensation for the wrong committed against... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law - 1879 - 1054 pages
...shown to have been inflicted wantonly or maliciously, and with circumstances of contumely or indiguity, the jury are not limited to the ascertainment of a simple compensation, but they may award an additional sum, as a punishment of or atonement for the wilful malicious wrong.... | |
 | Canada - 1881 - 784 pages
...it appears that " whenever the injury complained of has been inflicted maliciously or wantonly, * * the jury are not limited to the ascertainment of a...the wrong committed against the aggrieved person." The learned writer then says, " The word ' limited' implies that the jury shall go to the limit of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1094 pages
...employment, the corporation Is responsible, as an individual is responsible under similar circumstances." "Whenever the injury complained of has been inflicted...This rule is not merely the doing of an unlawful or Injurious act The word implies that the act complained of was conceived In the spirit of mischief,... | |
| |
Whenever the injury complained of has been inflicted maliciously or wantonly, and with circumstances of contumely or indignity, the jury are not limited to the ascertainment of a simple compensation for the wrong committed against the aggrieved person.... 
